Minnesota "conservative" radio talk show host tells Newtown families to "go to hell."

[Archae]

Why is this guy still on the air?

Minnesota radio host Bob Davis last week said last Friday he would like to personally tell the families in Newtown, Connecticut whose children were murdered to “go to hell.”

On his show Davis & Emmer, which is broadcast by Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130, he attacked the families of those killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for speaking in support of stricter gun laws.

“I have something I want to say to the victims of Newtown, or any other shooting,” Davis said. “I don’t care if it’s here in Minneapolis or anyplace else. Just because a bad thing happened to you doesn’t mean that you get to put a king in charge of my life. I’m sorry that you suffered a tragedy, but you know what? Deal with it, and don’t force me to lose my liberty, which is a greater tragedy than your loss. I’m sick and tired of seeing these victims trotted out, given rides on Air Force One, hauled into the Senate well, and everyone is just afraid — they’re terrified of these victims.”

“I would stand in front of them and tell them, ‘go to hell,’” he added.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/conservative-radio-host-families-of-newtown-shooting-victims-can-go-to-hell/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Losing his liberty is a greater tragedy than 6 year olds being murdered????

What an enormous dickhead.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Apparently a background check is a "greater tragedy" than someone's kids getting murdered.

I really hope this asshole gets fired.

[peacebird]

90. +100000000000000000000000000

[freeridemro]

118. nailed it

Absolutely sick of these gun fetishist loons and cowardly lawmakers misinterpreting the constitution and blatantly lying to the people at the price of dead children all to line their pockets with blood money from the NRA.

NRA is the new KKK. Shameful.

[bjobotts]

131. Update: He's been fired.

Crooks and Liars reports he's been fired.

[hlthe2b]

11. this is the attitude of more than just this asshole...

I'm not sure why this could EVER be acceptable, but I can assure you I've seen this attitude-- implicitly if not explicitly-- expressed here by at least a few of the most extreme gun advocates.

MIRT and admins have largely tamped this down with appropriate bans, but I doubt that there are not a few remaining.

[Paladin]

16. That guy's sick sentiments are still alive and unwell, here at DU. (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

31. +1

I've seen several posters say the same in more dressed-up language

[redstatebluegirl]

69. I have grown to love the "ignore" button...

[freshwest]

102. +1. Just put one of them on it today. They're insane.

[treestar]

70. I got a couple right wingers to admit

Those kids' deaths is an acceptable cost for the freedom to have guns without restrictions. Unbelievable.

[freshwest]

103. Just realized anti-Dem, anti-Obama types are gun zealots. Never got it before today.

The Ignore snakepit is filling up.

[Bette]

116. AT least.

Well at least you 'got it' now. Spread the word for anyone else out there who still cannot see what's in front of them.

[freshwest]

117. I was correlating dozens of posters that I remembered, having given them the benefit of the doubt.

I don't come here with the attitude that all people are endowed with the same experiences or have the same opinion on all issues. You can now spread the word yourself, too. And since I've never seen you post on any issue before, I'm not sure why you wrote 'At Least' to me twice as if I'm stupid.

[libdude]

85. Absolutely

I have relation that have the same attitude towards the poor, the disadvantaged, those without insurance, oddly they are to the last person Republicans. They live lives insulated from reality and comment how much they need to give of their taxes to people that wont work.
They really don't give a damn just like the 45 sorry excuse for leaders in the Senate. If you or a loved one suffers firearm related violence, well just shut up about it and please don't bother us with it.

[freshwest]

104. Yeah the sh1t happens crowd. Unless it happened to them, huh?

I keep telling people it's not just the representatives, it's those they REPRESENT they're working for, not the NRA. Sick.

[treestar]

110. Yes, they are so sure it won't happen to them

And if by chance it does, exactly, now a different tune. They elect the representatives they want, which is the scariest part. That district that elected Bachmann or Gohmert - are they embarrassed? No, that's what they chose.

[freshwest]

112. That's why I tell people to work in those boring local elections. They create the national scene.

But it's also dangerous to face the brainwashed masses upclose. So it's easier to throw stones at D.C.

[proud2BlibKansan]

92. Yes but not at all a prevailing attitude here.

A few yes, but there are a lot of people posting here. Bound to be a few nuts.

[Zookeeper]

91. What a cold, sick, narcissistic excuse for a human being.

And that goes for all the other gun-nut turds that share his opinion. I feel sorry for his children since they now know that he considers his toys more important than their lives.

[Mr. Evil]

98. More than likely...

a small dickhead. But, a dickhead nonetheless.

[gussmith]

99. Yeow

Losing his liberty??? What, a common sense approach to safety in America. I would not even call that losing one crumb of liberty. Self-centered fool.

[Blue Owl]

2. Put him on national TV in front of the Sandy Hook parents

and let the fucker hang himself with his NRA dope rope.

[riqster]

3. Consider the source:

[HughBeaumont]

25. Oh dear God, Squints Palledorous grew up and turned into a loon. For-Eh-VUHR!

[Blue_Tires]

34. awesome

[colorado_ufo]

67. Truly, a picture is worth a thousand words!

This little a-hole would crap his pants if anyone pulled a gun on him. If he had a gun himself, he wouldn't be able to use it due to the shaking of his knees.

[AAO]

80. In his basement, in his pajamas, with a big phallus microphone.

My source for reasoned intellectual debate.

[freshwest]

105. You're kidding me, right? Aren't you?

[lapislzi]

4. Only one response comes to mind

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

[dhill926]

43. succinct....and seconded.....

[perdita9]

54. It's more eloquent than he deserves

[hifiguy]

57. This, a thousand times this. nt

[47of74]

129. Here's my response to that right wing fuckstick

[Rex]

6. I bet he is full of shit and a coward.

He is a big talker...like all mouthpieces with an agenda. Big talk from a small man.

[Skittles]

97. of course he is

all gun nuts are cowards

[Mnpaul]

7. What is he waiting for?

He should be able to afford the ticket to fly out there and say it in person. Talk is cheap.

[Zookeeper]

93. +1 n/t

[dballance]

8. I guess he missed the Patriot Act, the expanded FISA, creation of TSA and DHS after 9-11???

What the heck does he think W. made himself? SCOTUS appointed him then Cheney and the media anointed him after 9-11.

Did he tell all the families from 9-11 victims to go to hell too?

[Shrike47]

49. That was Ann Coulter.

[freshwest]

106. Another waste of protoplasm, both of them.

[AlinPA]

9. After listening to these conservatives it seems the exercise of the right to own a weapon of mass

murder dominates the right to be safe in schools and theaters. If they choose, those with guns can kill, threaten and take the property of those without guns because of the power they hold in their hands granted to them by the 2nd amendment. They call it liberty.

[freshwest]

107. Well stated. And makes them brigands and gangsters, in effect...

[Ilsa]

10. They've been to hell already. Some are still living in

Hell because their babies died in a horrific and cruel way.

But they'll be back. Some already are. And they love their fellow citizens so much that they are fighting hard to prevent this from happening to anyone else. And many of us are fighting with them.

[SunSeeker]

38. Excellent post. Thanks. nt

[BrotherIvan]

81. Truth

Most beautifully said.

[mindem]

12. What a ass!!

The modern conservative movement is proof that evil exists - there is something inherently wrong with these people. Republicans are mentally ill.

[MisterP]

33. very LeT

"Evil is not a view... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself." --Philip K Dick

[tex-wyo-dem]

62. Calling him an ass is putting it nicely...

He's basically just a hack shock-jock who knows what sells to his fucked up audience. His listeners obviously love this "tough-talk" and will listen to any asshole in the media who validates their seriously fucked-up world view.

[Ikonoklast]

13. No, he wouldn't.

Just another asswipe who has never had members of his own family gunned down in cold blood by a 'law-abiding gun owner'.

[LuvNewcastle]

14. Just another day on Sociopath Radio.

[freshwest]

108. +1

[sakabatou]

15. Shock jock radio

[mzmolly]

17. I have no understanding of how Mr. Davis would lose his "liberty" if

there were background checks. Anyone?

[HughBeaumont]

22. Well, because wanting fairness and safety = Mao Zedong. Or something.

[drm604]

60. Maybe because his obvious insanity would prevent him from buying guns?

[arthritisR_US]

18. This guy should be taken off the air. They did it to

Bill Mahr so why should this creep get a free pass ?

[freshwest]

109. You forgot it's okay if a Republican does it. They own the stations...

[arthritisR_US]

111. Isn't that the truth! Gawd I hate these people...

[freshwest]

113. They're killing us. Literally. Not the government they blame for everything. It's them...

[arthritisR_US]

114. They sure are, a cancer on society necrotizing

it more and more each day.

[carolinayellowdog]

19. people like him make America hell for us all n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Let me get this straight:

Being forced to undergo a background check for an online gun purchase, or even being restricted from buying a AR-15 with 30 round mags (which sadly is still too far off on the horizon at this point) is a greater tragedy than learning your 6 year old son or daughter has been shot repeatedly to death.


Oh, fuck him.

[SummerSnow]

51. If that asshole...

has children they have to feel like shit knowing their father loves his guns more than them.Hopefully he has no children. What a evil jerk.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. The Facebook page of 1130 AM, Bob Davis' home station

https://www.facebook.com/KTLKFM

Let them know your thoughts.

I'd give you Bob Davis' own Facebook page, but he's too much of a coward to allow public comments on it (thus proving my point in another post.)

[alp227]

72. It's actually KTCN but the facebook page uses the old KTLK-FM call sign

as the FM station is now a sports station. Interesting how 1130 AM stations in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Detroit...in three neighboring states in the Great Lakes Region...all get to operate at over 10 kW even at night. Doesn't interference happen especially around a flat region like the great lakes states?

[Wernothelpless]

88. They don't allow any posts on this subject ...

On their FB page ... the minute you mention the subject you are deleted and blocked ...

Check out their header, "Because You Deserve The Truth" ...

[aandegoons]

23. So much has progressed to the over the top for entertainment value.

Just seems we are heading in the wrong direction overall with this stuff. Every year they (dare I say it) tend to get more and more unhinged.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. And this, my friends, is what is wrong with America.

[AsahinaKimi]

124. +1000

this.

[ladjf]

26. The man has no shame. nt

[octothorpe]

27. I bet he supported the patriot act after 9/11 though.

[octothorpe]

29. I bet he also wants to ban same sex marriage because he finds it 'icky' and against his beliefs

Idiot hypocrite is only concerned about his perceived rights.

[Javaman]

28. just another "shock jock" from a small market trying to create controvercy to jump into

the big leagues.

however, he failed and failed epically.

[Dawson Leery]

30. Talk radio is 90% right wing violence inciting hate speech.

[SwankyXomb]

61. Really?

You think the percentage is that low?

[Dawson Leery]

121. The other 10% is divided between sports talk, progressive talk, and

personal interest.

[Ganja Ninja]

32. We complain about Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity but

all across America there are throngs of local radio wannabees just like this guy who do as much if not more damage on a daily 24/7 basis.

My solution is don't kick this guy off the air, pull the station's FCC license. Pull it and don't let them apply for another one.

[meanit]

42. Absolutely

this kind of filth should not be on OUR public airwaves. It's not "free speech" it's viscous, violence-inciting hate speech. This Davis asshole should be fired immediately and the station responsible for broadcasting his show held accountable. Is there anybody at the FCC with a shred of decency?
Vermin like Davis (and all the others) should be on a pay service, not the public airwaves.

[AlbertCat]

58. Let him speak....

..... few are listening and few take it seriously. Why would anyone care what he thinks?

I also have the right to not care about him or his ilk and his unfounded fear of a king or his rights being trampled on. Let him feel oppressed and paranoid (he really doesn't, y'know.) Let each Sandy Hook parent beat the shit out of him for his free speech. I don't care. I won't interfere.

[meanit]

75. Yes, Davis is but a small pimple in the ass-acne on right wing radio.

The bigger problem is networks like Clear Channel, who's mission is to promote vermin like Davis whether they make money from them or not. As I have heard it told, Rush Limbaugh was force-fed to radio stations who bought the Clear Channel broadcast package. Apparently the Limbaugh show made very little money in the beginning, but that didn't matter, Clear Channel wanted his propaganda out there.

The public airwaves were never meant for one-sided, bought and paid for propagandists.

It's gotten out of control and it needs to stop.

[Mnpaul]

84. He's the warm up act for Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity

and they are followed by another pile of crap Jason Lewis
http://www.twincitiesnewstalk.com/pages/onair.html?feed=261837&article=3483113

[MOTRDemocrat]

35. Another vile human being abusing the 1st amendment...

If I can say whatever the hell I want without being jailed or having my tongue cut out, then my free speech has not been infringed.

Everything else is fair game to me.

Pull his ass off the radio.

[cali]

36. I'd like Bob to go fuck himself.

[TRoN33]

37. What on the Earth?!?

Everybody, trust me. I am born and bled Minnesotan blood, this radio host does not speak for traditional blue Minnesotans whose reputations are well known for being very nice and respectful of others. We are with Newton victims' families. We felt so bad for them.

This radio host is cold and absolute inhumane to tell these families to go to hell. That made me sick to my stomach. I just discover that his radio station is less than 10 miles from where I lives at. I'm going to make a vow to you all, I will go to that station to protest against this idiotic host.

[SunSeeker]

39. Welcome to DU, TRoN33!

I hope your protest goes well. Thank you for your service to your country. I think you will be speaking for all of us here at DU.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Bob Davis would not say that if his child or wife had been killed. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

52. He'd probably sing a different tune if that happened. . .

Then again, he may not be married or have children, so he probably doesn't give a fuck.

[bobclark86]

41. "Why is this guy still on the air?"... Two words:

Clear Channel

[HughBeaumont]

44. A real life cartoon character:

If we're fishing for tragedies, I think this lewsah being employed as a radio host qualifies.

[LanternWaste]

45. The variations on "20 dead school children are merely a price we pay to own firearms"

The variations on "20 dead school children are merely a price we pay to own firearms" are becoming legion.

[Initech]

46. If we care more about fucking guns than murdered kids, we're beyond saving as a society.

Really fuck this guy and everyone who thinks like him.

[toby jo]

56. Agree. They say it's about mental illness while they slide down the slope of it.

[smirkymonkey]

86. My sentiments exactly.

What a F****ing asshole. I really can't believe anybody can be that evil and heartless.

[frylock]

47. he wouldn't have the fucking guts

[DinahMoeHum]

48. ". . .stand in front of them and tell them. . ." With or without a weapon?

Psss psss psss psss psss! Meow meow!

[Sunlei]

50. another NRA poisoned fool- against a criminal background check!

[Blue Owl]

53. Would be really effective if he brandished his teeny-weeny manhood while saying it

n/t

[Shrike47]

55. He's just a family values kinda guy, like so many Pukes.

[ZRT2209]

59. these RWers have totally lost all connection to reality, hopelessly brainwashed

[Cha]

63. Stupid Asshole Whiner.

[caseymoz]

64. Funny how Conservatism

entails toughing up to the weak and helpless. Economic theories be damned, that's what its really about.

[kimbutgar]

65. My husband got into it with a right winger at work yesterday who told him Newtown was no big deal

And that what the Senate did voting down the gun legislation was the right thing to do. My husband got into his face and said, "you;re telling me that 20 innocent children getting massacred is no big deal"? He then told him , " I wonder if you would be saying the same thing if it happened to your daughter at school". The guy backed off and called my husband a crazy liberal. There were several people around his shop who witnessed this shouting match and not one person stepped in. And later a few came up to my husband and said good job getting into that a-holes face. This guy he works with thinks Mark Levin is a true Patriot and also loves Rush. He works in a union job making good money yet bashes unions. My husband has said he needs to quit the job and get a non union one if he feels that way. The right winger put in a bid to go to another shop. I hope he goes there, as I am tired of my husband talking about this little creep. The guy is an American born Mexican who looks like he could be illegal (the real Indian type of Mexican) yet he denounces other Latino immigrants and say they should go back to where they came from. Personally I think the guy has a self loathing problem but my husband says he likes the guy despite his politics. My husband is a bigger person than I am.

[Warren DeMontague]

66. barf.

[tblue37]

68. Like Ann Coulter calling the 9/11 widows "bitches" and saying she

is sick of them.

So classy these Right Wingers.

[bravenak]

71. We already knew they loved guns and hated children.

I would love for him to do just that. Tell the new town families to go to hell, publicly. To their faces.
He's too much of a coward. A fake assclown. I hate assclowns.

[vkkv]

73. What he MEANS is that HIS family wouldn't miss him at all if he was shot and killed.

I won't miss him either.. Bring on the Gun Nut shooters!

[mtasselin]

74. Really

I can not believe he still has a job, I already know that he does not have a soul. Where was this asshole when they shoved the anti-patriot act down our throats, oh standing next to useless nra.

[lexw]

76. Saw this yesterday. I thought it was a joke!

[santamargarita]

77. Why is anyone surprised, right-wing assholes...

are NOT human and they shouldn't be treated as such.

[DonRedwood]

78. kick

[sulphurdunn]

79. Creatures like this

are lower than shit on the sole of a shoe. Who cares what they say?

[MNBrewer]

82. His odious co-host wanted to be Governor.

Thank goodness we wound up with Gov. Dayton instead. I hope this ends Mr. Davis's career, but I doubt it will.

[SemperEadem]

83. boycott his sponsors

let him pay out of his own pocket for his airtime.

[WCGreen]

87. I just posted on his facebook page...

What a dip shit.

[dflprincess]

89. It should be noted that the Emmer part of Davis and Emmer is the jerk Mark Dayton

defeated (thanks to paper ballots and a recount) in the 2010 governor's race.

[Jennicut]

94. AM radio is dying, people under 50 don't listen to it.

It will eventually lose money the older baby boomers get. I have heard a lot of crap against these families. They have lost their young children, they dealt with the media sometimes harassing them, politicians being assholes. This is just one irrelevant old man desperate for attention and ratings. I love my state of CT. We changed things HERE. To hell with what the rest of the country does.

[blkmusclmachine]

95. Teabag much?

[Mr. Evil]

96. Hey, Bob Davis...

Its a background check not a loss of liberty. No loss of any liberty at all you sanctimonious gasbag, insensitive, incredibly dumb motherfucker!

I wonder if he would feel the same if it were his 6 year old that was murdered by a warped nutbag armed to the teeth. All of these collective mouth breathing, knuckle draggers seem to have this weird fetish about their damn guns and dreams of having their 'Dirty Harry, go ahead, make my day' moment. This asshole supreme is one sick perversion of humanity. I hope he swallows a turd!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

100. This, ladies and gentleman, is your modern day gun nut. And the said thing is, here on DU

people post things the support views of gun nuts, get alerted to the jury system and the jury allows the posts to stand.

People that espouse gun nut, NRA musings like this have no place in the political dialogue with rational, intelligent people (meaning gun owners that don't fear a non-existent government conspiracy that the Alex Jones/Glenn Beck crowd see) and certainly have no business posting on DU at all.

But any time a gun story or, lesser extent, a police brutality story comes out, the badge sniffers and gun nuts go on the attack.

[mokawanis]

101. He's catching hell on his facebook page

What an asshole

[muxin]

115. Another misuse of the first amendment?

I don't get it why there's always some Americans who feel that the first amendment gave them the right to be a senseless cold-hearted SOB like this guy

I hope he choke on that huge mic

[madrchsod]

119. i`m sure a little pressure on his advetisers will do the trick...

even a right wing republican business owner would throw him under the bus when it comes to the all mighty dollar...

[riqster]

120. I used this as source material for today's blog post

Thanks, Archae! I'm spreading it out amongst the non-DU crowd. http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/gun-crazy-radio-host-to-newtown-families-go-to-hell/

Here's a snip: "Gentle Reader, do you have children (or nieces, nephews, or grandbabies)? Try this little experiment: Go into the bedroom where they lie sleeping. Look at them, and say to them, “I’d rather you die than I might have to get a background check when I buy my next gun”.

Here’s hoping you can’t say that. In fact, we’re pretty sure you couldn’t. But Bob Davis could. And would. Here’s hoping that sick f*** doesn’t have children. Lord help them if he does."

[Mr. Evil]

127. Isn't it amazing

Why do these wingnuttery buffoons always try to out lowlife each other just so they can come off as a tough guy? I'd rather have a backyard full of kids having fun while their parents and my friends cook steaks and burgers on the grill over a few beers. Maybe catch a ballgame on the tv and enjoy each other's company. To me that's some of the spice and a nice slice of life. And no goddamn guns and paranoia allowed!

[riqster]

130. It takes Mr. Evil...

To accurately describe Heaven.

[Generic Other]

122. Someone is "terrified"

that Americans are fed up with their gun masturbation.

[mountain grammy]

123. I want this fool to face down a gunman like 20 six year olds did and tell him to go to hell.

I can only hope he suffers.

[Robb]

125. This is who you stand with, gunners.

When you stand against gun safety legislation, this is who's standing next to you.

[They_Live]

126. He could stand in front of me and say that

and I would punt him in the groin. Jerk.

[Tikki]

128. It appears this man is mad at the parents for not being proud that the children died by a gun....

and bullets...



Tikki

[VPStoltz]

132. And ain't it sad how quickly these types were willing to give up our "freedoms" after 9/11?

That was 3000+souls lost and we were forced to open our lives to the government and let our neighbors spy on us.
Well over 3000+souls have been lost already since SandyHook but their murderers get to maintain their "freedoms" undiminished.

[Jamaal510]

133. Bob Davis is a sicko.

I doubt that he even cares at all that innocent people were killed by some deranged psychopath. All he seems to care about is the "liberty" to hoard guns and for gun nuts to live their lives in cowardice and paranoia of some government takeover that will never happen.
To Hell with everyone else's liberty to be safe and not be randomly shot at in public. This country shouldn't have to put up with such self-centered mindsets muddying the debate.

[AlinPA]

134. Sounds like a perfect spokesman for the GOP/NRA.